A friend recently asked me to accompany her to a counseling session in Tokyo ahead of a decision on whether to have some of her eggs frozen. She is 39 and single. She does not have a relationship, nor is she particularly interested in marriage. But like women in many countries, she wants to keep her options open in case she decides in the future that she wants a child.
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The politics of egg-freezing, Japanese style
Government subsidies for harvesting intensify dilemmas for women
Babies fill a nursery ward at a hospital in Saitama prefecture, just north of Tokyo. For a range of reasons, more women are choosing to freeze their eggs. © Getty Images
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